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Odyssey Classics	Odyssey Classics was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Odyssey Classics is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Oliver and Boyd	The date of foundation of the publishing firm of Oliver and Boyd is sometimes given as 1778 and sometimes as 1798. See Alan Bell: 'Some recent acquisitions of publishing archives by the National Library of Scotland', Publishing history 3 (1978). The firm was acquired by Longman in 1962 and is now part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com and www.longman.co.uk.	2008
Options Publishing	Options Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Merrimack, New Hampshire in 1993. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com and www.optionspublishing.com.	2008
Ordinate Corporation	The Ordinate Corporation was founded in Menlo Park, California, specializing in automated language proficiency assessments. In 2004 the Ordinate Corporation was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
Orion Press	Orion Press was a small publisher based in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965 the firm was bought by Grossman Publishers. See the FOB entry for Grossman, which indicates that the firm is now part of Viking, which is part of Penguin USA, which in turn is part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168.	2008
Orion Publishing Group Ltd	The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name.	2008
Oryx Press	Oryx Press was founded by Phyllis Steckler in 1975 as an independent reference publisher. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Greenwood Press, which at that time was owned by Reed Elsevier. See 'Library Journal', 27 November 2000. From 2008, the Greenwood Publishing Group (including Oryx Press) is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Osgood, McIlvaine and Company	The firm of Osgood, McIlvaine and Company was established in London in 1891 by James Ripley Osgood and Clarence W. McIlvaine, but it was never an independent company. From the beginning the firm was wholly owned by Harper & Brothers. From 1897 the firm ceased publishing and its titles transferred to Harper & Brothers. See the FOB entry for Harper & Brothers.	2009
Otis, Broaders and Company	The publishing firm of Otis, Broaders and Company was founded in Boston in 1836 by James Otis and Edward R. Broaders. The firm went out of business in 1850. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 348.	2009
Outing Publishing Company	Outing Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1905 by James K. Reeve. In 1909 the firm went bankrupt, but it was later reconstituted and in 1918 its book list was purchased by Macmillan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 267 and www.macmillan.com.	2008

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